Surely you must see that's very funny?

Actually I've never been much of a one for laughing at the losing side.

What I do think is very funny (at least in the sense of funny-peculiar) is the number of people who airily dismiss the idea of defining 'folk' as reactionary and futile, but who turn out to be fiercely attached to a definition of their own - and, in most cases, either unable or unwilling to say why they're attached to it.